aslakhellesoy/webbit — comment on commit 15f89e85f1f27619f342f2d1099f4c9f77c17dc8
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By ngd:

I'd vote for returning the future. Switching a method from being async to sync can have subtle behavioural changes to an application, even if they were un-intended, and probably shouldn't make it's way into a minor release.